Metro Briefing | New York: Manhattan: Testimony Against Lil' Kim

Published: March 8, 2005

A rapper testifying against Lil' Kim yesterday at her federal perjury trial told jurors a Manhattan radio station courted trouble by booking Lil' Kim, left, and her industry rivals for interviews on the same day. The witness, Antoine Spain, known as Banger, was part of Lil' Kim's entourage when it left the radio station Hot 97, on Feb. 5, 2001, just as that of the hip-hop group Capone-N-Noreaga was arriving. That led to a sidewalk shootout that left one man injured, Mr. Spain told jurors. The feud stemmed from a ''dis'' of Lil' Kim, whose real name is Kimberly Jones, in a recording by Capone-N-Noreaga and the rapper Foxy Brown, Mr. Spain said. On the recording, Ms. Brown calls Lil' Kim ''lame.''